Bøker av Barry Kanpol

This text attempts to examine how teachers can begin to talk back and break bread. Arguing for a more prophetic vision, the author suggests that educational institutions must take on social and cultural constraints with alternative spiritual visions.

.In Kanpol's clear but simple formulation of similarity within difference' there is the vision of human relationships which honor cultural, linguistic, and historical distinctiveness, but which insist on the continuing vitality and viability of a common human vision and on the necessity of finding the common ground of political struggle.

Critical pedagogy refers to the means and methods of testing and attempting to change the structures of schools that allow inequities. Critical pedagogy seeks to release the oppressed and unite people in a shared language of critique, struggle, and hope, to end various forms of human suffering.

This collection explores the way in which critical theory and practice can unite into a common vision of democratic hope. The separate viewpoints are drawn together to constitute a democratic platform for an enlightened critical education agenda.